Journal
EMBO JOURNAL
Volume 19, Issue 16, Pages 4292-4297Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.16.4292
Keywords
innate immunity; interleukins; LPS; p38 MAPK; PKR
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- NCI NIH HHS [P01 CA062220, P01-CA62220] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI034039, AI34039] Funding Source: Medline
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Protein kinase RNA-regulated (PKR) is an established component of innate antiviral immunity. Recently, PKR has been shown to be essential for signal transduction in other situations of cellular stress. The relationship between PKR and the stress-activated protein kinases (SAPKs), such as p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), is not clear. Using embryonic fibroblasts from PKR wild-type and null mice, we established a requirement for PKR in the activation of SAPKs by double-stranded RNA, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and proinflammatory cytokines, This does not reflect a global failure to activate SAPKs in the PKR-null background as these kinases are activated normally by anisomycin and other physicochemical stress. Activation of p38 MAPK was restored in immortalized PKR-null cells by reconstitution with human PKR. We also show that LPS induction of interleukin-6 and interleukin-12 mRNA is defective in PKR-null cells, and that production of these cytokines is impaired in PKR-null mice challenged with LPS, Our findings indicate, for the first time, that PKR is required for p38 MAPK signaling and plays a potentially important role in the innate response against bacterial endotoxin.
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